At the dawn of the second automotive century it is apparent that the competitive realm of the automotive industry is shifting away from traditional classifications based on firms’ production systems or geographical homes. Companies across the regional and volume spectrum have adopted a portfolio of manufacturing concepts derived from both mass and lean production paradigms, and the recent wave ...

This research studies the impact of information technology enabled coordination on product modularization in the automotive industry. A structural equation model is tested based on 177 responses to questionnaires from 177 Korean first tier automotive suppliers. The results provide support for the hypothesis that high quality of exchanged information enables better supply chain coordination, whi...

OBJECTIVES The automotive industry represents the most important industrial sector in Czechia. The objective of this study has been to analyze the occurrence of occupational diseases (OD) in the automotive industry during the period from 2001 till 2014. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on OD cases was retrieved from the National Registry of OD. Further, we conducted a survey in automotive companies ...

This paper focusses on recent developments and on-going research related to parallel and distributed approaches for crashworthiness simulation, using the PAM-CRASH code from ESI as an example. The developments described here relate directly to the take-up in the automotive industry of the latest High Performance Computing (HPC) technology, since crash and safety analysis is well established in ...

This paper presents the results of the ASAI (Automotive SPICE Assessors and Improvers) working group. The aim of the ASAI is to address open issues in the real application of the standard Automotive SPICE in the automotive industry. The outcomes of the ASAI activities are a set of guidelines on how some relevant open issues (expressed by means of questions) can be addressed and solved. These gu...

ISO/TS 16949 is an ISO Technical Specification. ISO/TS 16949 achieves the objectives which are continually to improve the production of automobile parts and related services, and to strengthen the international competition for the automotive industry and its suppliers. By applying this quality system standard, automotive manufacturers could offer superior products and good services to customers...

i Preface U.S. DRIVE (Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle efficiency and Energy sustainability) is a voluntary government-industry partnership focused on precompetitive, advanced automotive and related infrastructure technology research and development (R&D). Partners are the By providing a framework for frequent and regular interaction among technical experts in common areas of experti...

The new product development (NPD) is the process by which a new product idea is conceived, investigated, taken through the design process, manufactured, marketed and serviced. In the automotive industry, within the context of ISO/TS16949:2002 (the automotive quality management system international standard), these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of five phases: "...

The paper discusses the role of process and robotics simulation in the automotive industry. Real-world applications of simulation in the body shop, paint shop and general assembly areas of a vehicle assembly plant are given in addition to Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and supply chain logistics applications. Uses of simulation during the different phases of an engineering project are add...